Whitney Clavin
818-354-4673 Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, whitney.clavin@xxxxxxxxxxxx NEWS RELEASE:
2009-061 April
2, 2009 NASA Joins 'Around The World In 80 Telescopes' PASADENA, Calif. -- A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a
live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at
how these missions are run. "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" is a
24-hour webcast that is part of the "100 Hours of Astronomy" event
for the International Year of Astronomy 2009. During the webcast, viewers will be able to visit some of the most
advanced telescopes on and off the planet. For NASA's space-based missions, the
webcast will be broadcast from control centers throughout the United States. To
view the webcast, visit http://100hoursofastronomy.org/webcast
. As part of the webcast, most of the missions will release a
never-before-seen image from the telescope or observatory. The new images can
be found on the Web sites listed below. Please note these times correspond to
the beginning of each mission's segment on the live webcast and when each new
image will be available. The NASA missions participating in the webcast, in chronological order,
are (times are Pacific Daylight Time, April 3): Hubble Space Telescope: 10:20 a.m. http://hubblesite.org/news/2009/14 Swift Gamma-ray Burst Explorer: 10:40 a.m. Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: 11 a.m. SOHO and TRACE: 12:20 p.m. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ and http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/trace/ STEREO: 12:40 p.m. Galaxy Evolution Explorer: 1:20 p.m. Chandra X-ray Observatory: 1:40 p.m. http://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009 Spitzer Space Telescope: 2:20 p.m. http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzer/index.shtml Kepler: 12:05 a.m. (April 4) For information about the International Year of Astronomy, visit http://astronomy2009.nasa.gov/
. For more information about NASA and agency programs, visit http://www.nasa.gov
. NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer Space
Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science
operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California
Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
Graphics and more information about Spitzer are online at http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzer
and http://www.nasa.gov/spitzer . Caltech
leads the Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission and is responsible for science
operations and data analysis. JPL manages the mission and built the science
instrument. The mission was developed under NASA's Explorers Program managed by
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